On Monday, June 16 we flew from Chiang Mai down to Krabi. We spent the night in Krabi Town, which turned out to be a dump... sort of. It was just a city, without much to do and it was kind of boring. Plus it rained most of the day. So, luckily we had only planned to stay there for a night and then take the early ferry over to Koh Phi Phi. We spent 2 nights on Koh Phi Phi and had a really nice time there. On the first day we took a walk around the main part of the island for a couple of hours exploring, then hit the beach for a little bit. But, man was it HOT! We probably only lasted an hour and a half before we had to retreat to the A/C in our room. Then we went out for dinner that night and people watched for a while - there sure were a lot of drunk young people there. I guess Koh Phi Phi is known as a huge party island, so there were tons of people watching to do.
On our second day on the island we decided to take a walk over to a more quiet, beautiful, less busy part, Long Beach. The beach here was so beautiful. The sand was white, the water was crystal blue and there was barely anyone there..it was heaven. We spent pretty much the whole day there and then made our way back to the main part of the island. We went out for dinner and then made our way to one of the many fire shows that the island has to offer. It is outrageous some of the things people do with fire. There was even a boy who was probably 7 or 8 years old twirling fire. It was crazy! But they sure do put on a good show. There was even a part with audience participation and Dave and I got involved. We limbo'd under a stick on fire and then I jumped rope while it was on fire...it was crazy but I was a little bit tipsy so I was up for it. We decided to keep the party going that night and had a few buckets. And apparently I decided to try and keep up with Dave, which was definitely not a good idea! Needless to say I was not feeling so good the next day.
A couple of youngsters spinning fire
Luckily, the next day was a lazy transit day. We hung out on Phi Phi for most of the day and then made our way by boat from the island back to the mainland, but to an area you can only reach by boat, Railay. We spent 3 nights in Railay and it was spectacular. It was this little town with these huge limestone cliffs pretty much surrounding the entire area except for a few beaches dotted along the coast. And we found the most amazing place to stay on agoda.com - it wasn't very expensive and it had an infinity pool and an awesome restaurant. And we stayed in this beautiful little bungalow. It was awesome!
We spent our first night exploring the island - Railay East, Railay West and Phra Nang Beach. We also discovered that there were a ton of monkeys in the area. We were walking down this one path and I guess someone had just been feeding them because there was close to a hundred monkeys running on the roof tops and the wires. I was a bit terrified of them - afraid they would try and steal our sunglasses, etc. but they really could have cared less about us. We finished the day off watching the sunset on Railay West before making it an early night. On our next day we spent most of the day at Phra Nang Beach. It was a beautiful beach. A cave at one end and beautiful sand and water. We spent the rest of the day at the infinity pool at our hotel. We went out for dinner that night and i'm not sure if it was something that I ate or if I got a bit of a virus, but I felt terrible that night. I honestly spent the entire night trying not to throw up. It was not fun. And I was definitely not looking forward to getting on a boat the next day and heading back to Krabi. I was feeling a little better by the next afternoon, so the boat ride wasn't too bad, but it took a few days before I was feeling back to normal.
The view of Railay from a lookout on the island
We left Thailand on June 25 and made our way to New Delhi, India to meet up with some familiar faces. We had an amazing time exploring Thailand and SE Asia. We ate our faces off and got to see so many beautiful sights. It was such an great few months, but we were excited to see India and start making the long journey back to Toronto.
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